Same thing here, karmic with 185.18.36 and I thought it was an issue with alpha kernels- obviously not:
glxinfo name of display: :0.0 NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied). display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) sudo glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes -- No Nvidia direct rendering unless root user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370249 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

